Man convicted of sexually abusing 2 girls in Coweta County sentenced to life in prison WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — A Coweta County man will spend the rest of his life in prison for what he did to two young girls.

After a weeklong trial, a Coweta County jury found Leslie Gene Patterson, 60, guilty of two counts of child molestation and one count of aggravated sexual battery involving two girls.

After the verdict was delivered, a Superior Court judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole in light of his multiple prior felony convictions.

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According to evidence presented at the trial, Patterson lived in Sweetbriar Mobile Home Park and hosted parties where he supplied alcohol and drugs for a teenage family member and his high school-age friends, which included teenage girls younger than 18.

Some of those girls testified at his trial about the parties and his behavior, which included Patterson making sexual comments and touching the girls inappropriately.

In 2020, an 11-year-old girl …